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IBM NORC Highlights

Number System:

  Decimal
Word Size:   16 digits and check
Instructions:   3 address
 

Tapes

   
Number of tape units:   8
Density:   510 characters an inch
Speed:   140 inches a second
Information rate:   70,000 characters a second
Starting time:   8 thousandths of a second
 

Electrostatic Memory

   
Number of words:   2,000
Access time:   8 millionths of a second
 

Arithmetic

   
Decimal point procedure:   automatic floating or specified
Multiplication time:   31 millionths of a second
Addition time:   15 millionths of a second
Complete operations, including floating decimal point, address modification:   15,000 a second
 
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